The Era of Gods

Chapter 600: Chapter 600 The Mysteries of Chaos

But whether one believes or not is irrelevant; it’s normal for everyone to have a few secrets.

Fortunately, the indiscriminate killing did not continue, and its impact was minimal. Accidentally eliminating a chess piece secretly placed by a Son of the Divine Realm is not too important. Giving two compensations settled the matter.

Following that, Lin Xiao asked for information in the group, then left Snake Country and headed north to continue hunting the Ancients.

Whenever he found a target, he would inquire in the group. If no one claimed it or there was no response for a long time, he assumed that it was not someone’s subordinate or pawn from the group.

Along the way, except for one that was spared because a Son of the Divine Realm had set sights on it, the vast majority were unclaimed and all were hunted and harvested by him.

Over two years, he hunted nearly twenty Ancients of varying strengths, mostly between Sequence 3 and Sequence 2. He only encountered two higher-ups of Sequence 1, one of which got away.

He didn’t encounter any from Sequence Zero, but he felt that even if he did, it’s unlikely he could do anything to them.

Being himself at Sequence 1, and only able to suppress peers by leveraging the enhanced Great Judgment Skills, was already impressive. To suppress or even kill those a rank higher at Sequence Zero would be extraordinarily difficult.

Two years later, Lin Xiao returned alone in his carriage to Snake Country. Li Mei had already been sent home by him, as the next level of beings he was to approach was not something she could face. There was no need to drag her into this.

In Snake Country, he met the White Snake, who appeared more powerful than two years ago, and two incarnations of Sons of the Divine Realm he had never seen before, one Sequence 1 and one Sequence Zero.

Lin Xiao frowned slightly. Sensing his displeasure, the White Snake explained telepathically:

“I too felt that just the two of us would be too risky, so I called two friends to come over. Don’t worry, they won’t partake in our spoils. I will cover the cost for their help.”

His expression eased, and he nodded:

“If that’s the case, then I have no objections.”

Not sharing the spoils settled that issue.

These two incarnations of Sons of the Divine Realm had already fully integrated into this world, each obtaining a piece of the Rule fusion, now completely transformed and barely distinguishable from the Ancients of this world.

The one known as Blood Demon, of Sequence 1, possessed the Rule of Blood, with the talent of controlling blood, which was quite formidable.

And the one from Sequence Zero, nicknamed Thor, governed the Lightning Rule. His very form was a figure wrapped in blazing white lightning, with thunder entwined around him with every movement.

The Lightning Rule was incredibly violent. Thor, who held about half of the Lightning Rule, had the strength equivalent to a Sequence Zero. If he could gather all the fragments of the Lightning Rule, he would instantly become a God-level Dominator, one of the incredibly powerful kind, comparable to the Powerful Divine Power.

Unfortunately, it was challenging to complete the Lightning Rule; the remaining parts were either lost or in the hands of other deities, not easily obtained at the moment.

The group huddled together to plot. The White Snake briefed them on the god of fear and hatred they were targeting, with particular emphasis on the situation within the god’s domain located in the Starworld.

To kill their target, they must invade the god’s domain in the Starworld and slay the True God at its origin.

This was equivalent to assaulting the domain of a deity with Medium Divine Power and killing its True Body within the domain, an astoundingly daunting task that required the mobilization of one’s True Body and Divine Realm.

Well, limited to Lin Xiao and White Snake. The spoils were mainly to be divided between them. Blood Demon and Thor were just favors called in by the White Snake, not requiring a share of the spoils, so they didn’t have to risk their True Bodies, only sending those two incarnations. Even if they had to open their Divine Realms, they didn’t need to risk their True Bodies.

Two months later, the four powerful Ancients, well-prepared, left Snake Country. After traveling thousands of kilometers, they arrived at a remote and uninhabited valley. There, they located a weak spot in space and tore through it, entering a minor sub-plane outside the Primary Material Plane’s Crystal Wall.

Directly tearing open the Crystal Wall of the Primary Material Plane made too much noise. The nearby Ancients could sense it, which was detrimental to their mission. @@novelbin@@

This was a small sub-plane they had prepared in advance: pitifully small, less than a thousand square meters, but sufficient to conceal their presence.

Through the thin Crystal Wall of the sub-plane, they could see the raging Chaos Energy outside. Influenced by the Chaos Storm, the Chaos Energy from outside the Crystal Wall Universe was seeping into this world, mixing with the Void Energy within this world’s void, tainting the normal Void Energy with the power of chaos, making the storm even more terrifying and the Void Creatures living in the Void Energy increasingly berserk and ferocious.

But to Lin Xiao, these fearsome Chaos Energies held an inexplicable familiarity. He stretched out a scaled finger and pierced through the thin membrane, feeling the corrosive Chaos Energy from outside the film… caressing his finger.

As a Lord of Chaos after ascending to Sequence 3, his mastery over chaotic power went deep, exerting a tremendous influence on him.

Before reaching Sequence 3, his main power source was the Chaos Rules, but after Sequence 3, since the Chaos Rules could only elevate his power to Sequence 3 and considering he was now comparable to Sequence 1, the gap was naturally filled with the power of chaos.

In other words, the main strength of his current incarnation was Chaotic Power.

Lin Xiao didn’t know whether there would be problems in the future. After all, Chaotic Power was strong, but the power of chaos and the various rules of Godhood he mastered belonged to different power systems. There would inevitably be conflicts. When this incarnation returned, this whole body of Chaotic Power…

The so-called Chaotic Power is a primitive and very pure force.

As is commonly known, the initial singularity explosion birthed the endless chaos, and the billions of Crystal Wall Universes in the heavens were born from the endless chaos, meaning that these billions of Crystal Wall Universes actually originated from chaos.

But they are not chaos.

This involves the deepest mysteries of the Chaotic Void Sea, which Lin Xiao, at his current level, simply could not touch.

He only knew that in chaos, there were none of the myriad rules found in the Crystal Wall Universes, only the four fundamental laws: time, space, energy, and matter. These four fundamentals constituted everything in chaos, including the many Crystal Wall Universes.

In other words, both the Human Main World and the many Crystal Wall Universes in the Chaotic Void Sea actually stemmed from these four fundamentals.

These four fundamentals cannot be mastered. Perhaps you have heard of someone acquiring the Godhood of energy or space, but these are only the projections of the four fundamentals in the various Crystal Wall Universes and not the true four fundamentals.

For instance, the Ancient Material Godhood that Lin Xiao’s life incarnation controls is a projection of the material fundamental, not the true material fundamental.

However, a fundamental is a fundamental, and even just a projection is far stronger than other Godhoods.

Back to the point, the so-called Chaotic Power and the four fundamentals are both one and the same yet only tenuously connected, but this is not the main issue.

Chaos is the state before the differentiation of spirit, form, and matter at the very beginning, primal yet pure.

And Chaotic Power is the most primal and pure force, containing all characteristics while having none, embodying everything.

A contradictory description, but Lin Xiao could only describe it so with his current understanding.

Perhaps when he becomes stronger in the future, such as ascending to great divine power, he might have a new understanding of chaos.

Chaos is incompatible with the various rules within the Crystal Wall Universe but encompasses everything. And at this very moment, Lin Xiao was about to face a choice.

As his strength grew, the Chaotic Power he now controlled had already surpassed the strength given by the Chaos Rules. He personally felt it was not bad, as he found the power of chaos much stronger than what the Chaos Rules had provided. However, if he could successfully acquire another part of the Chaos Rules this time, he would need to make a choice: to prioritize chaos or chaos.

Normally, chaos would be more suitable since he was on the path of God’s Law, but the problem was the rule of chaos did not suit him.

Chaos, as the name of this Godhood suggests, is a Godhood suitable for Evil Gods.

His other incarnation already possessed the Godhood of Darkness, and if that incarnation were to return, he would have to find a way to get rid of the Godhood of Darkness; otherwise, adding the Chaos Deity Position might change his personality due to their interaction.

Of course, a change in personality would still be him, but Lin Xiao did not want to change his current personality.

If he focused on Chaotic Power, another problem would arise: assimilation by chaos.

Complete invasion by Chaotic Power could even erode and assimilate a whole Crystal Wall Universe. How could a Deity who wasn’t even at Medium Divine Power resist assimilation by chaos?

In the history of the Main World, there were no lack of Sons of Divine Realm who accidentally obtained Chaotic Power. With the help of Chaotic Power, they were very powerful in their time, easily challenging those above their rank, but as the Chaotic Power continued to invade, slowly eroding their Divine Realm, it would eventually chaosize their Divine Realm, turning it completely chaotic.

If the Divine Realm became chaotic, the Sons of Divine Realm who relied on the Divine Realm naturally couldn’t avoid being chaosized themselves. Eventually, these Sons of Divine Realm who had mastered Chaotic Power became no different from those Chaos Creatures living in chaos and were no longer considered Sons of Divine Realm.

Although there’s the Creation Magic Cube to Purify chaos, the purified chaos is still chaos…

It merely purifies impurities, the nature of chaos remains, and there’s no such thing as purification.

“Truly a love-hate force!”

He didn’t dare to bet on whether he could avoid chaosization. The best solution was still to honestly integrate the Chaos Rules, and if need be, strip away the Chaos Rules upon his return and exchange with other True Gods to get a Godhood that suited him.

Thinking this, Lin Xiao sighed and looked up at the White Snake who was fiddling with the Spatial Waymarker established on this semi-plane, and asked,

“Is there a problem?”

At that moment, the White Snake had the form of a human head and snake body, its entire body covered in snow-white scales that looked quite beautiful. It circled the stone platform with the Spatial Waymarker several times, its brows furrowed, seeming to indicate that the situation was not very good.